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Polaroid instant photography revolutionized the taking and making of pictures, and the story of its beginnings is a simple one. In 1943, after being asked by his daughter why she couldn’t immediately see the photograph he had just taken, American inventor and scientist Edwin H. Land conceived of the technology required to make this seemingly impossible demand a(...)
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juin 2017
The Polaroid project: at the intersection of art and technology
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Polaroid instant photography revolutionized the taking and making of pictures, and the story of its beginnings is a simple one. In 1943, after being asked by his daughter why she couldn’t immediately see the photograph he had just taken, American inventor and scientist Edwin H. Land conceived of the technology required to make this seemingly impossible demand a reality—within an hour. Land’s creation was a groundbreaking scientific accomplishment that also heralded an exciting new chapter of artistic expression. Through the efforts of thousands of photographers the world over, as well as the corporation’s own artist support program, which provided many with materials, Polaroid would help shape the artistic landscape of the late twentieth century. Published to accompany a major traveling exhibition, "The Polaroid project" is a creative exploration of the relationship between Polaroid’s many technological innovations and the art that was created with their help. Richly designed with over 300 illustrations, this impressive volume showcases not only the myriad and often idiosyncratic approaches taken by such photographers as Ansel Adams, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ellen Carey, and Chuck Close, but also a fascinating selection of the technical objects and artifacts that speak to the sheer ingenuity that lay behind the art. With essays by the exhibition’s curators and leading photographic writers and historians, "The Polaroid project" provides a unique perspective on the Polaroid phenomenon—a technology, an art form, a convergence of both—and its enduring cultural legacy.
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""La solitude heureuse du voyageur" est un choix de photographies tiré de mes voyages, rempli de déserts, de villes et de chambres d'hôtel. Comme pour "Notes", mon premier livre fondateur, il y a toujours la place d'une femme aimée au bord du cadre, comme si je photographiais mon désir et que le paysage me renvoyait un moi enfin apaisé." R. Depardon
La solitude heureuse du voyageur
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""La solitude heureuse du voyageur" est un choix de photographies tiré de mes voyages, rempli de déserts, de villes et de chambres d'hôtel. Comme pour "Notes", mon premier livre fondateur, il y a toujours la place d'une femme aimée au bord du cadre, comme si je photographiais mon désir et que le paysage me renvoyait un moi enfin apaisé." R. Depardon
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Nonhuman photography
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Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent. Zylinska argues further that even those(...)
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Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent. Zylinska argues further that even those images produced by humans, whether artists or amateurs, entail a nonhuman, mechanical element—that is, they involve the execution of technical and cultural algorithms that shape our image-making devices as well as our viewing practices. At the same time, she notes, photography is increasingly mobilized to document the precariousness of the human habitat and tasked with helping us imagine a better tomorrow. With its conjoined human-nonhuman agency and vision, Zylinska claims, photography functions as both a form of control and a life-shaping force.
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Comprendre une photographie
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Regroupant des textes issus de catalogues d’artistes, expositions, articles, etc., Comprendre une photographie est un voyage à travers les oeuvres de photographes divers, d’ André Kertész à Jitka Hanzlová, en passant par Marc Trivier, Jean Mohr ou Martine Franck. Certains des articles regroupés ici ont déjà fait partie de choix de textes de John Berger publiés notamment(...)
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Comprendre une photographie
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Regroupant des textes issus de catalogues d’artistes, expositions, articles, etc., Comprendre une photographie est un voyage à travers les oeuvres de photographes divers, d’ André Kertész à Jitka Hanzlová, en passant par Marc Trivier, Jean Mohr ou Martine Franck. Certains des articles regroupés ici ont déjà fait partie de choix de textes de John Berger publiés notamment aux éditions de L’Arche, Champ- Vallon ou Le Temps des Cerises, tandis que d’autres sont traduits en français pour la première fois. La présente sélection reprend l’édition anglaise intitulée Understanding a Photograph, établie par Geoff Dyer et publiée en 2013 chez Penguin Books.
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ee/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising. Following Dyer's(...)
See/saw: Looking at photographs
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ee/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising. Following Dyer's previous books on photography, ''The ongoing moment'' and ''The street philosophy of Garry Winogrand,'' ''See/saw'' brilliantly combines visual scrutiny and stylistic flair. It shows us how a photograph can simultaneously record and invent the world, and reveals a master seer at work. In the spirit of the intellectual curiosity of Berger, Sontag and Didion, Geoff Dyer helps us to see the world around us, and within us, afresh.
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Dark mirrors
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''Dark mirrors'' assembles sixteen essays by photographer and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa focusing on contemporary fine art photographic and video practices that are principally, though not exclusively, rooted in the United States, written between 2015 and 2021. Wolukau-Wanambwa analyses the image’s relationship to the urgent and complex questions that define our era,(...)
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''Dark mirrors'' assembles sixteen essays by photographer and critic Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa focusing on contemporary fine art photographic and video practices that are principally, though not exclusively, rooted in the United States, written between 2015 and 2021. Wolukau-Wanambwa analyses the image’s relationship to the urgent and complex questions that define our era, through the lens of artistic practices and works which insightfully engage with the ongoing contemporaneity of disparate histories and the ever-changing status of the visual in social life. The book sets out an argument that one of the most dynamic sites of artistic invention in photographic practice over the past decade has been the photographic book, and thus many of the essays in the volume assess artistic works as they are bodied forth in that form. Among the recurrent themes that emerge from these rigorous, probing essays are the complex interrelationship of anti-blackness and visuality, the fragility and complexity of embodied difference in portraiture, the potency of verbal and visual media as social forms, and the politics of attention.
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In a series of written exchanges, David Campany and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa consider the options for photography in resisting the oppressive orthodoxies of racial capital, conservative history, and neoliberal visual culture. How does the essential indeterminacy of photography square with the need to work out alternative practices? How is visibility achieved beyond the(...)
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juin 2022
Indeterminacy: Thoughts on time, the image and race(ism)
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In a series of written exchanges, David Campany and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa consider the options for photography in resisting the oppressive orthodoxies of racial capital, conservative history, and neoliberal visual culture. How does the essential indeterminacy of photography square with the need to work out alternative practices? How is visibility achieved beyond the consensual categories of the mass media and the commodification of art? What models are there for the making and reception of photographic books and exhibitions that might cultivate an active spectatorship beyond boutique consumerism? These urgent questions and more are discussed in a spirit of speculation and possibility, in the light of signal events that have shaped the recent past.
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Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis - images of abandoned factories and malls, toxic landscapes, devastating fires, hurricanes, and floods. In this sweeping study, Miles Orvell offers a new understanding of the spectacle of ruins in US culture, exploring how(...)
Empire of ruins: American culture, phptography, and the spectacle of destruction
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Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis - images of abandoned factories and malls, toxic landscapes, devastating fires, hurricanes, and floods. In this sweeping study, Miles Orvell offers a new understanding of the spectacle of ruins in US culture, exploring how photographers, writers, painters, and filmmakers have responded to ruin and destruction, both real and imaginary, in an effort to make sense of the past and envision the future. ''Empire of ruins'' explains why Americans in the nineteenth century yearned for the ruins of Rome and Egypt and how they portrayed a past as ancient and mysterious in the remains of Native American cultures. As the romance of ruins gave way to twentieth-century capitalism, older structures were demolished to make way for grander ones, a process interpreted by artists as a symptom of America's "creative destruction." In the late twentieth century, Americans began to inhabit a perpetual state of ruins, made visible by photographs of decaying inner cities, derelict factories and malls, and the waste lands of the mining industry. This interdisciplinary work focuses on how visual media have transformed disaster and decay into spectacles that compel our moral attention even as they balance horror and beauty. Looking to the future, Orvell considers the visual portrayal of climate ruins as we face the political and ethical responsibilities of our changing world. A wide-ranging work by an acclaimed urban, cultural, and photography scholar, ''Empire of ruins'' offers a provocative and lavishly illustrated look at the American past, present, and future.
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Inventer la couleur
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À l’occasion de la célébration du centenaire de la mort de Ducos du Hauron, inventeur agenais de la photographie en couleur, François Saint Pierre propose une exposition qui explore le rapport à la couleur dans la photographie moderne et contemporaine, essentiellement aux États-Unis et en France. Le catalogue réunit plus de 120 œuvres de 19 photographes auteurs et(...)
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octobre 2021
Inventer la couleur
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À l’occasion de la célébration du centenaire de la mort de Ducos du Hauron, inventeur agenais de la photographie en couleur, François Saint Pierre propose une exposition qui explore le rapport à la couleur dans la photographie moderne et contemporaine, essentiellement aux États-Unis et en France. Le catalogue réunit plus de 120 œuvres de 19 photographes auteurs et artistes, autour des pionniers William Eggleston, Ernst Haas et Saul Leiter, qui, en faisant entrer la photographie en couleur au musée dans les années 60/70, ont battu en brêche le préjugé tenace selon lequel « le noir et blanc serait l’art et la couleur serait commerciale ». En Europe, où le monopole artistique du noir et blanc était encore plus marqué, l’Italien Luigi Ghirri dans les années 1970 et le Français John Batho dès 1963, s’engagent dans la photographie en couleur. « Je voulais savoir, déclare ce dernier, ce que la photographie pouvait avoir à dire au sujet de la couleur. » Cette réflexion se prolonge avec des artistes du numériques comme Constance Nouvel qui explore ce que peut encore la photographie à l’heure des réseaux sociaux. Avec des photographies de Vincent Ballard, Sammy Baloji, John Batho, Denis Brihat, Alix Delmas, Philippe Durand, William Eggleston, Luigi Ghirri, Jan Groover, Saul Leiter, Mazdak, Ernst Haas, Pierre et Gilles, Bernard Plossu, Julien Richaudaud, Paolo Roversi, Laure Tiberghien et James Welling.
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En dix-huit chapitres, largement illustrés de photographies, l’auteure Ann Marks mène l’enquête pour percer le(s) secret(s) de la plus mystérieuse des femmes photographes, dont l’œuvre fut découverte par hasard lors de l’achat d’un lot de photographies anonymes au cours d’une vente aux enchères.
Vivian Maier révélée : enquête sur une femme libre
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En dix-huit chapitres, largement illustrés de photographies, l’auteure Ann Marks mène l’enquête pour percer le(s) secret(s) de la plus mystérieuse des femmes photographes, dont l’œuvre fut découverte par hasard lors de l’achat d’un lot de photographies anonymes au cours d’une vente aux enchères.
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